The worst feeling in tech is when you accidentally click on a mailto link and then Apple Mail starts up.
Hamish McKenzie
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Hamish McKenzie
@hamishmckenzie
- What has been reported in the Twitter Files is news. History is going to make that clear. That journalists are hauled before Congress to be attacked for their reporting of that news should concern anyone who cares about journalism.
- Today we're announcing Substack Notes. Notes lets writers publish short-form posts and recommend almost anything: quotes, links, images, and comments. It's coming soon and will look like this
- I remember Google Reader. I remember how good it felt to be a thinking person who liked to read on the internet. I remember being able to follow my favorite writers and read them at length, where their arguments could be made calmly, where there was a point in aiming for beauty.
- This is not going to happen.There have been conversations at Twitter about acquiring Substack, seeing it as a kind of Twitter premium nytimes.com/2020/11/01/bus…
- I voted in the New Zealand election via internet. It took 5 minutes. In my opinion, the internet is going to be big one day.
- I've seen a bunch of writers on Substack become millionaires from subscriptions now. Lots of half-millionaires too. It's thrilling to me. When we started this company, "Writers are getting rich" wasn't a trend.
- Replying to @hamishmckenzieToday, Twitter started blocking links to Substack. We hope this action was made in error and is only temporary. However, even if this change is not temporary, it is a reminder of why cracks are starting to show in the internet’s legacy business models.
- I have some personal news. But it's personal, so I'm not going to share it.
- We are partnering with @TheFIREorg to stand up for free speech in the face of recent government actions against critics of U.S. foreign policy. We will work to protect writers who are targeted in this way.
- Substack is one of the internet tubes, ma'am.Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): "You posted on your umm I guess it's kind of like a web page. I don't quite understand what Substack is."00:00
- Fun fact: A little over four years ago, there were zero paid subscriptions to substacks. Today, there are 1 million.
- Exxon announces solar energy projecthello, here is some news Facebook is building a newsletter product, designed to court independent writers and journalists it could be similar to offerings from startups like Substack and Revue nytimes.com/live/2021/01/2…
